Outdoor Architectural Lighting Designers

To stay one step ahead of your competitors in today’s increasingly regulated marketplace of architectural lighting design, you must focus on service beyond customer service. This may sound rather odd thing if you are a contractor who takes pride in exceeding client expectations and relies on customer service to win bids. It is not odd of you consider the fact that your service alone to the client will end when the system is finished, and the client probably hopes you will not have to return with a labor invoice for additional service fees for maintenance and replacements. The type of lighting design service that today’s clients want comes not so much from you (although courtesy and professionalism are always a given in business), but rather equipment and solutions that serve them every evening when the doors close and the lights come on.

A system proposed along these principles of architectural outdoor lighting design is something of an intuitive beast that anticipates expectations on two levels. In one sense, it reliably performs without mishap on a consistent basis in accordance with how it is intended to perform. In another sense, superior architectural lighting design anticipates strict government regulations that are sure to tighten up even more in the years to come as public demand mandates greener technology both in terms of power costs and material builds associated with equipment manufacture.

To rise as a leader in architectural area lighting design, you have to think ahead, and you have to install equipment that in spite of its lack of “thinking” ability, behaves like it can think and fulfills the expectations of clients, governing authorities, and surrounding citizenry alike.

To achieve this level of excellence is no small task. You must take either take extraordinary measures to design an architectural lighting system, or you must work in partnership with a vendor who already has. Architectural lighting design on this level requires investing in very expensive photometric modeling software that most small companies and freelance contractors simply cannot afford, but desperately need nevertheless to develop site lighting and exterior lighting proposals that simultaneously speak to cost consciousness, governing authorities, employee morale, branding and advertising, and power conservation. Without these kinds of tools, working out all the math and angles of incidence necessary to determine wattage, voltage, foot candle densities, required LPW, and CRI index, can cost more money than it makes you at the end of the day.

Rather than putting yourself and your clients through all of this, consider the advantages of working with a vendor like RLLD Commercial Lighting that has already spent the money on architectural lighting design software so you won’t have to, and who will offer its full functionality to any client at no additional costs to the price of the equipment you buy. If you are a family-owned business, you can compete with large architectural firms and lighting designers that previously out competed you because they had access to resources you lacked. If you are a large organization who is capable of purchasing such suite of programs, don’t. You will have to hire additional staff, pay for training, and wait longer than you want to for results.

Let our staff assist you with the process of turning conceptual, intuitive architectural lighting design into a scientific, mathematically sound schematic of the actual hardware to be used and the recommended positions of every light fixture and lamp in the system. Not only will such a partnership save you time by streamlining the proposal development process, but it will also make your line items more precisely targeted toward the long term objectives of energy code compliance, reduced maintenance and replacement costs, light pollution control, and optimal aesthetic compliments that any client can justifiably and reasonably expect from their investment in architectural lights.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures and we have an extensive array of lighting case studies to back up our recommendations. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you.

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